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...Gerard Manley Hopkins or Hart Crane--or Theodore Roethke, who was one of Dickey's favorites. But Dickey was himself--a now and then wild American, good at putting his own myths in motion and intoxicated by the English language. English professors called him "Orphic" or "Delphic," a prophetic delver, with an eye for nature and, interestingly, for the sometimes violent meanings of machines (cars, fighter planes). At his best, in the poems he wrote from the late '50s to the early '70s, he produced work of a virile and transformative splendor...
...entry onto the information superhighway allows users to obtain the latest information about the stars and content to the network's shows, delver into NBC's multimedia applications and meet network personalities on-line...
Down the right lane waited his beautiful witch of a wife, Maire, and the power and corruption of London personified by Gog's bastard brother Magnus Ponsonby, nicknamed Magog. In Magog it is learned that Gog went left and north to become a breeder of lobsters and delver into the mysteries of the ancient Druids...
Plastic Twin. Updike is a delver into himself, much in the manner of Proust. Most of his protagonists in this collection are really the same thin, brooding young man. although they are given different names. Clearly they are different ages of a fabricated Updike, the kind of plastic twin brother that Proustians invent when they want to probe their own insides without disturbing the machinery. The trouble is that Author Updike does not really seem interested in exploring time and soul, but merely in finding some minimal core to be crusted with his magnificent words. This dedicated 29-year...
...Herbert Hoover thinks this point should be emphasized. . . ." "The Twenties." Like its five best selling predecessors, "The Twenties" is lively, readable, honest, superficial, rich in color, anecdote and detail. Occasionally bumbling in literary style, it lacks coherence, is reflective but not philosophic. No great creative thinker, no intellectual delver into the remote why & wherefore of things, Author Sullivan has laid for future historians of the period an indispensable groundwork of fact and atmosphere. His story of the 1920 Republican NationalConvention, of how Strategist Harry Daugherty prepared the way and Republican elders reluctantly pushed reluctant Warren Harding into the Presidency...
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